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WarHawk-AVG wrote:

bdickens wrote:People can, and have, drawn on a drawn gun and won the encounter.

Never said it was unheard of..just incredibly rare

Pyrrhic victory when you both bleed out over a wallet with $14 in it. (best case scenario you walk with a limp for the rest of your life, badguy goes 6 feet under..but still..some win huh?)

I'm kind of arriving at the same conclusion, now. Basically: you win some, you lose some. The bad guy wins in a situation like this, so just call it a day.

Thanks for all the insight so far. Keep it coming!

To answer some questions, my friend was unarmed due to his personal philosophy, but more importantly his ineligibility (immigration status). The robbery happened in Houston near Reliant Stadium at night.

I keep thinking about the tactic of throwing the wallet on the ground as a diversionary tactic (cause that was one of my first ideas). The Achilles Heel of that strategy, however, would be if the robber then said, "Pick it up," instead of getting it himself.

So a week ago, one of my co-workers was mugged at night while walking around town with another person, who unfortunately had a lot of money stolen in the encounter. Four guys had been walking behind them, when all of a sudden one of them rushed forward with a semi-automatic, demanding cash, holding them by gunpoint at very close range. Fortunately, one of the four bad guys was caught shortly afterward, so hopefully they will pressure him to give up the other three. Bad news is that the stolen cash may take a while to get recovered, if ever. And the other good news is that neither of the victims was harmed (physically).

As I've been mulling over this encounter, I keep coming up with more questions than answers. Basically: what would I have done? And: would it have worked? Because, as you probably are thinking right now, my first response was to think: Yep, that's why I carry, and had it been me in that situation, I would have used it, and won. But given the nature of the attack (surprise, from behind, with 2-1 odds), the more I think it over, I'm really not sure how it would have turned out if I was there in place of my friend.

I'm also struck by the question that Washington Post columnist raises in his really great article (cited in this thread) about becoming a new gun owner: "Does the gun indeed provide a much-needed layer of security in a dangerous city, or does it merely provide the perception of security?"

So, fellow CHLers, what are some of your tactical thoughts on this situation?